A video has appeared on Youtube celebrating 400 years of the Blackheath Gofer (Goffer possibly, but Gofer?). I’m guessing, as the video seems to be full of old men hitting little white balls, that it is actually about Blackheath Golf Club. Anyway, it is a trailer for a 42 minute film to be [...]
Entries from January 2009
January 30, 2009
The Birds
Lovely, rather sinister photo of the Bleak Heath by Flickr user Lemon Te. Used by permission.
January 29, 2009
The passenger squashing quota…
Coincidentally, Southeastern Trains had a sort of open day today, where a number of their senior managers were standing in Charring Cross station, ready to answer questions.
So I asked them whether there is any quota that they have to meet in terms of “how squashed are the passengers?”. The answer was revealing. They are [...]
January 29, 2009
Blackheath ready to swallow oysters?
Simon writes:
Southeastern trains will be using Oyster Pay-as-you-go within the year, so I thought that people might like to know about a brilliant discount you can get if you have a Railcard. It is little publicised, but you can get Railcards (Young Persons, Senior, Disabled and Forces) added to your Oyster card. This will lower [...]
January 27, 2009
Blackheath does God – religion as lifestyle
The Times had an article about the local church in Blackheath. Which is fine, I guess, although I couldn’t really understand how this was in any way newsworthy… Lots of people find God when they suffer difficulties. It has a photograph of a luminously backlit attractive young lady standing next to a vicar [...]
January 26, 2009
Recruiting Today… No thanks
Saw this leaflet being handed out at Blackheath station last week. The only time I’ve ever seen people sitting inside that army recruitment office was once – a mother and what looked like her 17 year old son were sitting on the chairs looking out onto the high street… I couldn’t help wondering whether [...]
January 25, 2009
Unlucky High Street?
I could have sworn it was bad luck to leave Christmas Decorations up after Twelfth Night. They were still blazing away yesterday evening. Maybe it doesn’t apply to street decorations?
January 24, 2009
A teaspoon of Blackheath, and an open mind
An interesting coincidence:
Bob (writer of the wonderful reminiscence piece published earlier), asked yesterday:
The Blue Police Box (now called a TARDIS in the Dr. Who series) was once outside the Blackheath Bookshop, Tranquil Vale side.
Is it still there ?
It certainly isn’t there, although I wish it was! Does anyone know when it dematerialised?
Now for [...]
January 22, 2009
Stop! Fixed!
UPDATE: They’ve amended the page, so no harm done… Think my headline was a little premature.
Kake wrote to me to point out that this site was using a copy of the photo above that I took on their site. The problem has quickly been fixed, and they have referenced the photo back to [...]
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